The Emotional Buzzword Decoder: How to Stay in Your Heart When Someone Comes at You in Extremes

Paid Subscriber Companion to: “You Never Play With Us: How to Stay in Your Heart When Someone Comes at You in Extremes”

If you read the free article, you already know the moment.
Jordan stood in the doorway and said, “You never play with us. You’re always working.”
And I felt it—like so many of us do—that flash of defensiveness rising.

But beneath that instinct to defend was a deeper invitation.
To stay in my heart.
To hear her words not as facts, but as flares from a younger…